Posted on 05/24/2019 7:07:37 PM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
I dont think I would use that camo pattern in that environment.
Yeah. Gotta be somewhere where there’s enough room to shoot it. :)
Just guessing but most attack helicopters have ~30mm cannon. The 57mm may be intended to expand the anti-helicopter air defense envelope.
Another possibility is that if it can elevate near vertically, the heavier caliber may be useful in urban canyons for taking out rooftop defenders by blasting through walls at acute angles and penetrating multiple levels of poured concrete floor/ceiling.
I don’t know if this is the same as their 57mm “Derivation” program, but one of the benefits that has been mentioned is that a gun is a more cost-effective means of shooting down drones—as mentioned in lurk’s post, than using missiles such as the Pantsir in Syria.
Just an observation... That gun mount looks like it could elevate to almost 90-degrees. Are they trying to develop some kind of dual-purpose, tracked light-artillery system on the backs of an IFV system? Not sure what benefit that would give them. 57-mm would be pretty anemic in terms of explosive potential.
I was thinking the same, but as their is not radar emitter-receiver on the vehicle it appears that you’d have to fire at that helicopter optically.
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